Including articles: Raisa Asikainen & Minna Saarnivaara, Legitimation of political violence: the cases of Hamas and the Khmer Rouge; Harry Halén, Statistics of Kazak and Kalmyk cattle owners in the Ili district and the Tekes valley; Tapani Harviainen, Marriage contracts and items of dowry among the Karaims in eastern Europe; Juha Janhunen, Typological interaction in the Qinghai linguistic complex; Francisco Moscoso, Cuentos en dialecto árabe urbano de Rabat; Anu Niemi, How foolish! The essentials of true speech; Heikki Palva, An Egyptian Arabic Zajal from the fourteenth (?) century: Mia Rikala, Once more with the feeling: Seth the divine trickster; Taru Salmenkari, To refute or to develope human rights? The discussion in the official Chinese press in 1979-80; Serafim Seppälä, The idea of knowledge in East Syrian mysticism; Moshe Sharon, The decisive battles in the Arab conquest of Syria; Saana Teppo, Agency and the Neo-Assyrian women in the palace; Hannu Töyrylä, The concept of time in Megillat ha-megalleh.